"Because I know myself very well, it is difficult to say who I am."

-- Taiso Eka

"You are not what happens; you are the space in which it happens."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

-- Krishnamurti

"If we undertake being a good, compassionate person as a personal identity, it just gets in the way of awakening."

-- Adyashanti